1.  As ever, the poor are hurt the most.

2.  Because the poor are hardly heard these days in Congress, the cuts might seem safe.

3.  Because both bus systems receive federal funding, the government should investigate to be sure the rights of minorities and the poor are being upheld, he said.

4.  It's doing this by staging raucous arguments over whether the so-called rich are being treated too generously and the so-called poor are being shortchanged.

5.  Most tribes "are very poor, with unemployment reaching in some areas to 90 percent."

6.  Mexican peasants and urban poor are woefully aware that the government has done little to help them in a long time.

7.  Neighborhoods once made up entirely of the poor are being economically integrated.

8.  Now, the poor are just more isolated."

9.  Particularly vulnerable, experts say, are poor, non-English-speaking Latinos and their children, whose numbers are increasing at the fastest rate.

10.  Opponents say the tax is unfair, because with higher smoking rates, the poor are getting hit the hardest.